Dans son ouvrage "Traité pratique de la gravure à l'eau-forte (paysage et figure)", Karl Robert propose une exploration approfondie de la technique de la gravure à l'eau-forte, marquée par un style précis et didactique. Ce traité s'inscrit dans le courant de la littérature artistique du XIXe siècle, où la volonté de partager des connaissances techniques était primordiale. Robert y combine description méthodique et analyses des œuvres, rendant ainsi hommage à la richesse et à la diversité d...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.Our April 2017 issue (#127) contains:Original stories by Robert Brice ("Conglomerate"), Bogi Takacs ("Some Remarks on the Reproductive Strategy of the Common Octopus"), Vajra Chandrasekera ("Left of Bang: Preemptive Self-Actualization for Autonomous Systems"), Juliette Wade ...

Ludwig Wittgenstein’s On Certainty explores a myriad of new and important ideas regarding our notions of belief, knowledge, skepticism, and certainty. During the course of his exploration, Wittgenstein makes a fascinating new discovery about certitude, namely, that it is categorically distinct from knowledge. As his investigation advances, he recognizes that certainty must be non-propositional and non-ratiocinated; borne out not in the things we say, but in our actions, our deeds. Many phi...

La production ainsi que les intérêts de recherche de Robert Karasek sont largement liés à l’activité de travail. Ils visent à mieux comprendre l’univers des organisations, mais avec une visée bien spécifique : expliquer le mal-être dans les organisations. Plus précisément, il vise à mieux comprendre les processus par lesquels les individus peuvent être confrontés à une détérioration de leur santé dans le cadre de leurs activités professionnelles.

Cet ouvrage aborde pour le pédiatre, le médecin généraliste, ou tout professionnel de la santé de l'enfant, l'ensemble des aspects de la prévention, du diagnostic et du suivi, ainsi que les différentes structures d'orientation et d'accueil à tous les âges de l'enfance (du nouveau-né à l'adolescence). Toutes les pathologies pédiatriques sont abordées et intégrées au sein de véritables monographies autonomes comme l'infectiologie, les urgences, les pathologies respiratoires, digestives ou ne...

This collection of women's racialized and gendered mappings of place, people, and nature includes the stories of teachers, organizers, activists, farmers, healers, and gardeners. From their many entry points, the contributors to this work engage crucial questions of coexistence with nature in these times of overlapping climate, health, economic, and racial crises.

We have just had another flood, bad enough, but only a foot or two of water on the first floor. Yesterday we got the mud shoveled out of the cellar and found Peter, the spaniel that Mr. Ladley left when he "went away". The flood, and the fact that it was Mr. Ladley's dog whose body was found half buried in the basement fruit closet, brought back to me the strange events of the other flood five years ago, when the water reached more than half-way to the second story, and brought with it, to...

This book considers the important twentieth century Austrian philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and his conception of certainty.In his work entitled On Certainty, Wittgenstein provides not only a brilliant solution to a previously intractable philosophical problem, but also the elements of an entirely new way of approaching this and similar longstanding, apparently unresolvable, problems. In On Certainty, he re-conceives the problem of radical skepticism–t...

Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and former President of the American Educational Research Association, presents a collection of chapters from across disciplines to further understand...

The narrative unfolds as a series of puzzling events, secrets, and suspicions surrounding the vanishing of Jennie Brice. The protagonist, a nurse named Miss Pinkerton, becomes embroiled in the mysterious circumstances surrounding Brice's disappearance. The story delves into intricate plot twists, red herrings, and unexpected revelations as the investigation progresses.Mary Roberts Rinehart, often referred to as the "American Agatha Christie," was a trailblazing writer in the mystery genre....

From an early age, Brice H. Goldsborough exhibited an unending curiosity about the world around him; he was interested in almost anything mechanical, was inquisitive about weather patterns, and yearned to know more about aerodynamics. This lifelong quest for information led him to found Pioneer Instrument Company in New York in 1919, a firm that eventually became one of the worlds largest producers of reliable aviation instruments. In this biography, author Robert Dye, Goldsboroughs great-...

Les pédiatres et les médecins généralistes s'interrogent et sont eux-mêmes interrogés dans leur pratique quotidienne par les familles à propos d'un diagnostic, d'un traitement, ou d'une orientation spécialisée concernant leurs enfants. Cet ouvrage, s'appuyant sur l'expérience conjointe de médecins de l'enfant, de généralistes et de spécialistes, a été pensé pour répondre à ces questionnements. Réalisé par un collectif d'auteurs de toutes disciplines issues de la spécialité pédiatrique, ce ...